COMMENT: It is clear that the host shapes the microbiome. The authors describe that miRNAs are among the host factors influencing the microbiome. It has been described for mice and humans that miRNAs are abundant in fecal samples.
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COMMENT: Dual RNA-seq is used to investigate Salmonella intracellular infection and replication after invasion. In addition of coding RNAs the authors also analyzes lncRNAs and sRNAs. The found expression of 145 known and 189 candidate Salmonella...
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COMMENT: 16S rRNA amplicon analysis is a powerful method extensively used to obtain a taxonomic profiling in a metagenomic sample. However, short reads technologies are not able to provide full length 16S sequence. Thus there is a growing...
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